ow let's put some of this training to work. All you need to write an HTML file is a text editor. If you're on a Macintosh, you probably have something called SimpleText, which will do just fine. If you're using Windows, you should have a program called Notepad. Open one of those up and create a new, empty file. Now you need to type in some HTML code.
Every HTML file has to start and end with the same tags. Just like the <b> tag that tells the browser to make something bold, you need some tags to tell the browser that it's about to read an HTML file. So the first tag you have to use is the <html> tag. It has to be the first thing on the page, and its closing tag, </html>, has to be the last thing.
Inside the <html> tags go the <body> tags. This tells the browser where to look for all the actual content on your page. <html> and <body> are really the only tags you have to use. There are others that you should use, but for now we can get away with just those two. So if you type something inside the <body> tags, well, my friend, you'll have a Web page.
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